Garment-stay.



W. K. DEAN.

GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION FILED 11110.13, 1913.

'1, 1 21 ,334, I Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

3mm WnliI/v/HLQw/W fitter/nus THE NORRIS PETERS CO. PHUTO-LITHO.. WASHING MN, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HALTER K. DEAN, OF NORTH GIRARD, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, OF ONE-THIRD TO JOHN R. DEAN, OF NORTH GIRARD, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Application filed December 13, 1913. SEIiHl'NO. 806.428.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WALTER K. DEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Girard, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment- Stays. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment stays and consists in certain improvements in the construction thereof as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Garment stays have heretofore been made of flat steel. In order to give to such flat steel stays greater flexibility it is desirable to slot them so as to give greater length of metal to stand the stress of the flexing and also so that the flexing can be sustained somewhat at least by a torsional action on the metal. The present invention relates to a stay formed of a flat resilient metal which is slotted transversely so as to form bars which are subjected to torsional strain.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows Figure 1. shows a plan view of a stay hav ing studs forming a clasp. Fig. 2 a view of a stay having eyelets attached thereto for engaging the studs shown in the stay of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 a section on the line 33 in Fig. 2. Fig. a section on the line l4 in Fig. 1.

The stay has the slots 1 which are oppositely disposed and extend inwardly from the edges. Alternating with these slots are the transverse slots 2, the slots 2 being entirely inclosed. Those slots, therefore, leave the connecting metal 3 between the ends of the slots ].-1 and the connecting metal t at the ends of the slots 2. There are formed at each side of the connecting parts 3 the bars 5 and these bars extend across the stay and as the stay is flexed are twisted or subjected to torsional strain and the greater portion of the strain on the stay is sustained by the twisting of these transverse bars. In this way a stay of great flexibility is formed and the alternating slots entirely inclosed and extending to the edge simplify the manufacture so. therefore, a more uniform product may be more readily made. The construction is also advantageous in that it readily lends itself to the securing of the fastening devices. The studs 6 are while they have great flexibility flatwise they are relatively stiff against edgewise flexure while not entirely preventing such flexure.

It will be noted that there are longitudinal portions joining the transvcrseportions and that these are out of alinement at opposite sides of the same transverse portion. The transverse portions between the longitudinal portions are subjected to torsion as the stay is flexed flatwise.

What I claim as new is 1. A garment stay formed of flat resilient metal and having slots extending through the metal and transversely of the stay, some of said slots extending to the edge of the stay and others of said slots being entirely inclosed, said slots being associated to form transverse bars of metal in the stay and longitudinal portions joining the bars, the longitudinal portions at opposite sides of the same bar being out of alinement whereby the bars are subjected to torsional action as the stay is flexed.

2. A garment stay formed of flat resilient metal and having slots extending through the metal and transversely of the stay, some of said slots extending to the edge of the stay and others being entirely inclosed, the slots entirely inclosed and the slots extending to the edge alternating in the stay and being associated to form transverse bars of metal in the stay which are subjected to torsional action as the stay is flexed.

3. A garment stay formed of flat resilient metal and having slots extending through the metal and transversely of the stay, some of said slots being oppositely placed and extending inwardly from the edge of the stay and others of said slots alternating with said inwardly extending slots being entirely inclosed and said slots being associated to form transverse bars of metal in the stay which are subjected to torsional action as the stay is flexed.

l. A garment stay formed of flat resilient metal and having slots extending through the metal and transversely of the stay, some of said slots extending inwardly from the edge of the stay, said slots extending inwardly from the edge of the stay being arranged in pairs oppositely disposed and extending an equal distance inwardly from the edge of the stay leaving a connecting piece of metal between the ends of said slots and others of said slots being entirely inclosed alternating with the slots extending inwardly from the edge of the stay, said slots being associated to form transverse bars of metal in the stay which are subjected to torsional action as the stay is flexed.

5. A garment stayformed of flat resilient metal and having slots extending through the metal and transversely of the stay, some of said slots extending to the edge of the stay and others of said slots being entirely inclosed, said slots being associated to form transverse bars of metal in the stay which are subjected to torsional action as the stay is flexed; and fastening devices secured in a portion of the stay extending longitudinally of the stay between the ends of the slots extending to the edge of the stay.

6. A garment stay formed of flat resilient metal and having slots extending through the metal and transversely of the stay, some of said slots extending to the edge of the stay and others of said slots being entirely inclosed, said slots being associated to form transverse bars of metal in the stay Which are subjected to torsional action as the stay is flexed; and fastening devices extending through the inclosed slot and arranged in a portion of the stay extending longitudinally of the stay between theends of the slots extending to the edge of the stay.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VALTER K. DEAN.

Witnesses J. M. TAGGART, ii NANCY F. TAGGART.

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